The Russia-Ukraine war and NATO
Graeme Gill continues his diatribe against NATO. For him, NATO was the real villain behind the Russian invasion of Ukraine. He, and other P&I contributors, seem to have little regard for the Ukrainians killed and wounded in the Russian invasion. There is no mention of the true character and origins of Vladimir Putin’s autocratic, oligarchical crony regime.
Jeffrey Sachs’ role is shown in his early support for this regime as an adviser for Boris Yeltsin’s shock therapy on Russia’s post-Soviet peoples, evidenced in Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine: “Gorbachev’s eclipse by Yeltsin, and the consequent history is a story too often told in the bland language of ‘reform’, a narrative so generic that it has hidden one of the greatest crimes committed against a democracy in modern history. Russia, like China, was forced to choose between a Chicago School economic program and an authentic democratic revolution.”
Sachs, as an adviser to the Russian state “told Yeltsin he was confident that if Moscov willing to go with the ‘big bang’ approach to establishing a capitalist economy, he could raise something in the area of $15 billion”.
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